News
EAC Mobile Laboratories Training on Antimicrobial Resistance and Monkeypox Diagnosis East African Community
Selected News Coverage and Conference Participation
2025
MOBILISE Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus field mission Austria and Tanzania
2024
MPox outbreak in East Africa
- ARD Tagesthemen, 4.10.2024 (Public German TV, interview): https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/sendung/tagesthemen/video-1387168.html
- Deutschlandfunk, 27.8.2024 (Public German broadcaster, radio interview): https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mpox-lage-in-afrika-wie-mobile-labore-und-impfplaene-helfen-sollen-dlf-9b82799b-100.html
- Tagesspiegel, 7.9.2024 (German newspaper): https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/mpox-notlage-in-afrika-wir-bringen-mobile-labore-in-schwer-zugangliche-risikogebiete-12318728.html
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 10.10.2024 (German newspaper, article): „Fliegende Labore im Kampf gegen Viren“
2023
Marburg Virus outbreak Tanzania
- Deutschlandfunk, 30.3.2023 (Public German broadcaster, radio interview): https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mobile-labore-fuer-die-marburgvirus-diagnostik-in-afrika-interview-florian-gehre-dlf-0f112fed-100.html
2021
COVID-19 pandemic East Africa
- 3Sat “Nano”, 21.4.2021 (Public German TV): EAC mobile laboratory network coverage
2018–2019
EAC mobile laboratory network
- KfW-News: Combating pandemics: the next outbreak is sure to happen.https://www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de/International-financing/KfW-Development-Bank/News/News-Details_509376.html
- BMZ Healthy DEvelopments website: Mobile laboratories for pandemic preparedness in the East African community.https://health.bmz.de/stories/mobile-laboratories-for-pandemic-preparedness-in-the-east-african-community/
- BMZ Healthy Developments website: Mobile laboratories hold up in EAC’s pandemic simulation exercise.https://health.bmz.de/stories/mobile-laboratories-hold-up-in-eacs-pandemic-simulation-exercise/
- WHO newsroom: Cross border disease outbreak simulation exercise reinforces preparedness in East Africa.https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/cross-border-disease-outbreak-simulation-exercise-reinforces-preparedness-in-east-africa
